Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived here on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?

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Currently reading: I got World Without End by Ken Follett back! I started listening to it on Friday during my run and I’m beyond excited to keep listening. I hope to finish it this time, but there’s a lot going on between now and when it returns again.
I’ve only read a bit of The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge. Again, as an ebook, I don’t tend to read these quickly. It helps that I own this one and won’t have to continue to check it out every three weeks!
I picked up Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass on Sunday and I plan to start applying it to my novel-in-progress in December and January. I’m not sure how much of it will be fun to apply and how much of it will frustrate me and make me want to pull my hair out, haha.

Recentlyfinished: I finished Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove Sunday morning. It wasn’t as informative as I’d hoped it would be. The advice applies better to senior level managers and since I’m only at the entry-level point of my career, I’m not sure how much of it I’ll use and I’ll likely forget the important parts when I would be ready to use it. Oh well.
I finished The Tempest by William Shakespeare on Friday before I started back up with Follett. It was hard to follow while running, which is the first time I’ve said that. Usually I have no trouble but I found I needed to picture the actors moving across a stage and it was hard for me to do that and not run off the side of the road.

Reading Next: It’s likely going to be Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell, my book club’s January pick. I have another book club book coming up soon so I better start in on these and make sure I get them both done in time!

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Congrats on finally getting the Ken Follet. Have to admit I’ve never tried running and listening to an audio book but I doubt it would go well. I’m usually concentrating on keeping breathing when I exercise 🙂

I keep meaning to read some Beryl Bainbridge too… more for the list!
And I’m not surprised you couldn’t follow The Tempest while running! I couldn’t follow anything beyond simple lyrics, so I applaud you for listening to anything more complicated while exercising 🙂

This is my third Bainbridge and I know now to pay close attention when I read her. She usually throws in real historical characters and some references to the beginning of the novel toward the end that you have to pay close attention to or you’ll miss completely. Happy Wednesday!

I’d never heard of it before but I just added it to my Goodreads (because clearly I didn’t have enough on my TBR already haha) and I’ll definitely look out to see what you think 🙂 It really does sound like a great book!